 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow : And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join....from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line. Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join....from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who have learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...dull rhymes, and What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join....gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Deuham's ss the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I...nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...wandoring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A'i...y. SOUND AN ECHO TO THE SENSE. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound...gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence,...must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain 2 when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; (1) Most lry numbers,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...languishing!/ slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 364 Where Denham's strength and Waller's aweelncsi join True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,...gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er kills, and Alps on Alps arise ! fmy SOUND AN ECHO TO THE SENSE. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound...gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows 5 But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...worse: Fell Sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more, Than when it bites, bat lanceth not the sore. 80. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance...offence: The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft w the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows: But when loud... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...vigor of a line, Where DenharnV strength and Waller's4 sweetness join. True case in writing comes frotn art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd...gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the tSrrent... | |
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Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should... 
